Love for various travels, visiting beautiful places and sights - all this is characteristic of every person living in the modern world. But sometimes the desire to travel and visit new, unknown places slowly but surely turns into a disease, which in society is called dromomania.
Dromomania is an impulsive desire to change places, wander, and sudden travel. Do not confuse dromomania with a person's desire to travel a lot and often. The main feature of the disease is suddenness. For example, when watching TV, a person can suddenly get up from the couch and, without taking any things with him, go on a trip. This disease must be noticed in time, since such departures from home can become a taxonomy, eventually acquiring impulsiveness and suddenness. However, frequent travel alone is not enough to diagnose this disease.
The most common symptoms that will help diagnose dromomania in a person are a complete lack of responsibility and a lack of an accurate plan, which is usually followed when leaving on a trip. A person with dromomania can leave a family member, small child or pet in need of care on the street and walk away. As a rule, attacks are accompanied by symptoms of anxiety, which usually disappear already at the beginning of the journey. Usually, people suffering from this disease may not take, for example, the necessary things, documents and money needed on the road. They move during their journey with the help of a hitchhiker, or "hare", that is, without paying for a train, bus or taxi ticket. There are a lot of reasons for the appearance of the disease. Most often, among all the reasons, the formation of emotions is highlighted, a kind of state of affect inherent in the psyche from the moment of birth, in which a person may not control his own actions.
Also, psychological illnesses, which most do not take into account, can also be a common cause of dromomania. Such diseases include schizophrenia, epilepsy, hysteria, when a person does not have the ability to control his thoughts, feelings, emotions and behavior, both among loved ones and in public places. In most cases, a person is not subjected to special treatment, I only advise his loved ones to closely monitor him. As a rule, dromomania goes away on its own and does not require urgent intervention from a psychiatrist. But if the symptoms of dromomania do not go away within two to three months, and his behavior becomes more and more unpredictable, the patient must be examined by a doctor in order to find the most mild, but at the same time effective treatment that can completely or partially eliminate the symptoms.
